You’ve now doubt heard already that The Pension Regulator (TPR) are not only prosecuting employers for none-compliance of auto-enrolment but they have now started to prosecute employers for giving misleading information too. After a whistle-blower prompted TPR to investigate into Crest Healthcare they became the first employers to be prosecuted for knowingly providing false information…

Trying to work out which pension provider to go for when being faced with Auto-enrolment must have been confusing for any business owner, I know it was for us and we’re the ones implementing the schemes!! And now in last week’s FT Advisor they’ve written an interesting article on the difficulty in making comparisons among…

Check yours now As lots of small and medium sized businesses reach their staging date, a growing number of them are either setting up their scheme after their staging date has passed, or just not setting up the scheme at all! During the second quarter of 2017 nearly a fifth of employers (18%) who were…

One in five employers are failing to sign its employees up to an auto-enrolment pension scheme. Putting them at risk of hefty fines from The Pensions Regulator, according to figures released by AE master trust Now: Pensions, to read more click here for the full article published by the FT Adviser. Are you ready for…

How Osborne has changed auto enrol Just when you were getting used to auto enrol arrangements, the inevitable has happened. The Chancellor has gone and changed them! In truth, there was only a minor tweak in the recent autumn statement. Nevertheless, it’s significant: • Employer and employee contributions are scheduled to increase from 1% to…

The government is set to roll out a refreshed auto-enrolment advertising campaign to make sure smaller companies are aware of their duties around workplace pension schemes. From July adverts fronted by former Dragons’ Den star and entrepreneur Theo Paphitis will be broadcast across the country. More than 47,000 large and medium-sized employers have already completed…

I know that we have sent out emails regarding your staging date before but this article just shows the small amount of businesses that are acting on what needs to be done. Research published by the Pensions Regulator has revealed that only 29% of employers who have a staging date for pension auto-enrolment in 2016…

The Pensions Regulator has published an online guide to help employers with pension auto-enrolment. All employers are required to provide employees with access to a pension scheme, even if they only have one member of staff who is paid through PAYE. The guide provides detailed advice about how employers can set up pension auto-enrolment for…

All small and micro businesses are to receive letters from The Pensions Regulator in the coming months as part of a new campaign to give them key information on automatic enrolment, including when the duties affect them. The decision to write to more than 1.5 million addresses across the UK from the end of January…

The Pensions Regulator has urged employers to check their pensions auto-enrolment staging date, following the publication of its Spring 2014 Employer Awareness, Understanding and Activity Survey. According to the Survey, around one in five small business owners, and around half of micro-business owners, do not know their exact staging date, despite it being necessary to…